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Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter.

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It is proposed that this literature can be informed by an interactionist approach in which the effects of oxytocin are constrained by features of situations and/or individuals.
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This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2011-07-01. It has received 1311 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social cognition & Prosocial behavior.

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Differential neural responses to child and sexual stimuli in human fathers and non-fathers and their hormonal correlates

TL;DR: The results suggest that the decline in testosterone that accompanies the transition to fatherhood may be important for augmenting empathy toward children.
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Social Novelty Investigation in the Juvenile Rat: Modulation by the μ-Opioid System.

TL;DR: A new behavioural test to study social novelty‐seeking behaviour in the juvenile rat is established and it is found that μ‐opioid receptor antagonism reduces novel social investigation in both the social novelty preference and social preference tests while leaving the investigation of a cage mate or an object unaffected.
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Oxytocin increases empathy to pain when adopting the other- but not the self-perspective

TL;DR: It is proposed that the modulatory effect of OT on empathy when taking the other-perspective may be mediated by its role in self- and other-distinctiveness and corollary by itsrole in increasing salience to social agents and cues.
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Toward a Model of Interpersonal Trust Drawn from Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics.

TL;DR: An integrative NPE model is sketched out that explains how the interactions of psychoeconomic components engage domain-general large-scale brain networks in shaping trust behavior over time.
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Mindblindness : An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind

TL;DR: The four steps autism and mindblindness how brains read minds the language of the eyes mindreading - back to the future was discussed in evolutionary psychology and social chess mindreading as discussed by the authors.
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Personality and Assessment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the acquired meaning of stimuli and on the situation as perceived, viewing the individual as a cognitive-affective being who construes, interprets, and transforms the stimulus in a dynamic reciprocal interaction with the social world.
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Oxytocin increases trust in humans

TL;DR: It is shown that intranasal administration of oxytocin, a neuropeptide that plays a key role in social attachment and affiliation in non-human mammals, causes a substantial increase in trust among humans, thereby greatly increasing the benefits from social interactions.
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A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure.

TL;DR: A theory was proposed to reconcile paradoxical findings on the invariance of personality and the variability of behavior across situations to account for individual differences in predictable patterns of variability across situations.
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